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CVE-2013-1066

Published: 18 September 2013

language-selector 0.110.x before 0.110.1, 0.90.x before 0.90.1, and 0.79.x before 0.79.4 does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
language-selector
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

lucid Not vulnerable
(code not present)
precise
Released (0.79.4)
quantal
Released (0.90.1)
raring
Released (0.110.1)